page_title: Enham Alamein
section_title: Enham
hierarchical_section_title: Enham Alamein / Etymology and history / Enham
caption_attribution_description: English: Houses, Enham Alamein The village lies just north of the Hampshire town of Andover in the direction of this south-facing view. The houses on the right may well have been built by the local authority of their day. The trees behind are home to a small but noisy rookery.
context_page_description: Enham Alamein is a village and civil parish about 2½ miles north of Andover in the north of Hampshire, England. It was named Enham until 1945 and previously Lower Kings Enham.
  There are three population areas, in order from north to south, now named Upper Enham, Enham Alamein and Knight's Enham. At the 2011 Census the population of the civil parish was 804.
  Knight's Enham is now part of the north edge of suburban spread of Andover, about a kilometre south along the A343 road from the current site of Enham Alamein. This is a hamlet of 3 or 4 houses and a church with a first recorded date of 1241.
  The village of Enham was one of the original "Village Centres" chosen for the rehabilitation of injured and war-disabled soldiers returning from the front line of World War I. Originally funded by King George V in 1919, the Village Centre became a hub for the care of these soldiers where they were retrained in new trades such as basketry, upholstery, gardening services and other trades. This formed the basis of the charity which still exists today and owns the majority of Enham Alamein village, Enham Trust, providing care for civilians with disabilities.
context_section_description: The spelling Anglo-Saxon "Eanham" is recorded from the year 1008, pointing to ēan-hām = "lamb homestead" or ēan-hamm = "enclosure, for the raising of lambs".
  There is a speculation that the "raising of lambs" refers to the rebirth of England under the one Christian God, as decreed in the Enham Codes written in the year 1008 at what later became Kings Enham (Upper and Lower), the royal estate of the 1008 lawcode and known as such in the later Middle Ages.
  Of particular interest is the meeting of the Witan including Bishop Wulfstan and King Aethelred II at Upper (Kings) Enham on 16 May 1008. ).
  This law-making council of 40 nobles and around 360 retainers, put into draft a decree detailing the social ordering of England and to bring England as a whole under one Christian God, One King, and giving all men the right to law. These laws were aimed at bringing the populace together against the Viking raiders and are referred to as "the Enham Codes" According to Cambridge University, the meeting of the Witan was held at what later became Kings (Upper) Enham  on the high ground along what is now MacCallum Road (previously Enham Lane) at Home Farm, (previously Kings Enham Farm).
  At Home Farm there are Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and medieval deposits indicating consistent habitation, with at least one Roman villa confirmed as significant by Andover Museum, and a clear boundary ditch locally known as "the valley". Other deep earthworks can be remembered in living memory before they were filled in to make way for modern farm machinery.
  Early records are:
  1008: Eanham, i.e. Anglo-Saxon ēan-hām = "lamb home" or ēan-hamm = "enclosure by a river or marsh, for lambs"
  1066: Domesday Book "Etham"
  1167: Enham
  1281: Separate settlement of "Knyghtesenham", knight's fee held here by Matthew de Columbers in the mid 13th century.
  1316: "Enham Militis" (= "Enham of the knight": miles is Latin for "soldier", used in Mediaeval Latin for "knight").
  1379: Enham Regis (= "Enham of the King") and "Enham Militis" (as above)
  1595: Kings Eneham and Eneham: Knights Enham does not reappear until 1759
  1720: Enham
  1759: Knights Inham, Upper Kings Inham, Lower Kings Inham (with given alternative of Lower Kings Enham)
  1900: Knight's Enham, Upper Kings Enham and Lower Kings Enham were each a group of a few houses.
  1919: Knights Enham, Upper Enham, Enham
  1945: Knights Enham, Upper Enham, Enham Alamein (and still so as at April 2014)
caption: Houses, Enham Alamein
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